Oberlin, Ohio – In a well-played game one, the Oberlin College baseball team finished on the wrong end of a 3-2 decision against the College of Wooster Fighting Scots and in game two the Scots broke the game open with a grand slam en route to a 14-2 win.
 
In-between games the Yeomen honored their 12 senior members as the players were joined on the field by their respective families.
 
In game one the Scots' Tyler Schuch and the Yeomen's Milo Sklar went pitch for pitch as they each went distance. Schuch, who moved to 6-1, allowed seven hits and one walk. Sklar scattered 10 hits, one walk and one hit batter. He also struck out three while falling back to 3-3 on the season.
 
The Yeomen took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first as Sam Harris hit a one-out double to right center and then came around to score on Isaac Goldman's two-out single to left.
 
The Scots would even the score in the second before taking a 2-1 lead in the top of third. The go-ahead inning started with three singles - two of which were in the infield – to load the bases. However, Sklar would induce a double play groundout to cleanup hitter Jamie Lackner in which a run scored and then got of it with another groundball out.
 
Oberlin would even the score at 2-2 in the fourth as senior Blaise Dolcemaschio sent looping single over the third baseman's head that plated freshman Brendan Mapes.
 
The Scots' sixth started with a double by Lackner and then Ryan Ostendorf followed with a single of his own to put runners on the corners with nobody out. Sklar would get yet another twin-killing groundout, but Lackner raced home on the play for what proved to be the game-winning run.
 
Oberlin went in order both the sixth and seventh as the Scots finished off the game-one win in just one hour and 31 minutes.
 
Game two was shaping up to be much of the same as the two foes were deadlocked at 2-2 through five innings until Michael Wielansky's crushing grand slam in the sixth broke the game open for the Scots.
 
Yeomen starter Harrison Wollman left with a man on second and one out, but a single and a walk against reliever Noah Gear loaded the bases for Wielansky who got a fastball right down the heart of the plate from Gear and did not miss it.
 
Wooster would go on to rough up the Yeomen bullpen for eight more runs over the final three innings to leave no doubt in the eventual outcome. The seven Oberlin pitchers in the game didn't help their own cause as they combined to issue 12 walks in the game.
 
Wollman, who pitched out of a few big jams early on, suffered the loss after allowing just five hits and three runs in 5.1 innings of work. He registered six punch-outs, but also walked five as he fell back to 2-4 on the year.
 
Zach Woullard went the distance for Wooster, allowing just eight hits and two runs to move to 5-1. He walked two and fanned four on 117 pitches (79 strikes).
 
The teams traded a pair of runs in the third. For the Yeomen senior Brian Hemmert, who went 3-for-4 in the game, got things going with a double to left center to put two men in scoring position with one out. Harris then followed with a hard-hit line-drive single to center to score Colin Brown. Rookie Ian Dinsmore would then square the game at 2-2 with an opposite-field single down the right field line to plate Hemmert.
 
However, from that point on the Yeomen could not get a rally going as they had  no more than one hit in any inning the rest of the way.
 
The losses dropped Oberlin's overall record to 13-22 and 5-9 in the NCAC East. Wooster, which has now won 10 of its last 11 games improved to 24-9 and 12-2 in league action.
 
These same two teams will run it back tomorrow afternoon with games three and four of the series set to take place from Dill Field starting at 12 p.m.